“Unfolding realities” series is inspired by Sao Paulo and Brazil, where the artist Johanna Baudou lived for 7 years between 2008 and 2015. Sao Paulo is a 'concrete jungle', built without territorial limits. Nature and architecture mix and the rules are confused between what man has built and what Nature has imposed. With parallels, lines, close ups, coloured plains and Nature mixed with architecture, these paintings are a subtle expression of a complex dynamic, interweaving between “the smooth and the striated”.

In this series, her paintings respond to a desire to question our identity in this globalized world, resisting against the constant striation of space transforming our surroundings in “non- place” and “non-culture” landscapes. The diversity of culture, evolved over centuries, is now increasingly giving way to a globalised modelled way of being, especially under the spell of fast expanding megacities all around the world. This means that the way we perceive life as defined by our cultural heritage and environment is also changing.
We are at a moment where the world feels less like a great narrative that would develop over time but as a network that connects points which overlaps.

With high spatial and chromatic saturation, multi-coloured stripes and shapes intertwine with the horizon, creating rhythm and movement. Using mainly refined and controlled brushstrokes, the various layers give the canvas a sensation of depth with a rich sense of composition and graphic sensitivity. The use of colour and landscape elements reveal a compositional process interplaying between figurative and abstract. The overloaded canvas features lines and forms seemingly coming apart and together. The canvas exposes spaces of instability and “becoming”, a deconstruction to re-construct elsewhere.